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Comment Re:Hi (Score 1) 12

by Tet (#33842192) Attached to: I still can't believe I'm this old.
Well, I'd rather have lost the house than the land. Not much of a consolation, but still. I can only dream of having that amount of space. I hope you can afford to do something with it soon.

Who/what is in colorado for quilting?

Ricky Tims is in Colorado, about 175 miles south of Denver. He's one of the big names in the quilting world. We met him when he was over here a few years ago, and he wrote the foreword for my girlfriend's book.

they think I'm way old-school for having any experience on something that's not x86

Heh. I know that only too well. Hell, mine think I'm old school for having used Linux before the existence of Ubuntu.
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Oxford Expands Library With 153 Miles of Shelves 130

Posted by samzenpus from the card-catalog-of-the-gods dept.
Oxford University's Bodleian Library has purchased a huge £26m warehouse to give a proper home to over 6 million books and 1.2 million maps. The Library has been housing the collection in a salt mine, and plans on transferring the manuscripts over the next year. "The BSF will prove a long-awaited solution to the space problem that has long challenged the Bodleian," said its head librarian Dr Sarah Thomas. "We have been running out of space since the 1970s and the situation has become increasingly desperate in the last few years." The 153 miles of new shelf space will only be enough for the next 20 years however because of the library's historic entitlement to a copy of every volume published in the UK.

Comment Hi (Score 1) 12

by Tet (#33807670) Attached to: I still can't believe I'm this old.
Good to see you're still around. Sorry to hear things haven't been going to well. Am I remembering right that you'd bought a chunk of land? Is that what you had to sell? That sucks if so.

Anyway, not a lot to add (other than that I might be in CO next year, on quilt-related business -- still not sure about that, though). Oh, and feeling old? I was 40 this year, and work in a office full of people that don't understand their Unix history :-(

Comment Just the one (Score 1) 17

by Tet (#33630252) Attached to: How many dot-boms do you have under your belt?
It started out as a great company, full of incredibly talented people, doing innovative things in the credit card world. Then, as we grew, we started hiring mediocrity. Management infighting resulted in one of the two co-founders leaving (not voluntarily), and although we were bought out before bankruptcy, they had us over a barrel by then, so my options were worthless and the only people to make money from the company were the two co-founders. The remaining one made money from the sale. The one that left made money from suing the one that remained. The rest of us got screwed and were made redundant by the new parent company a couple of years later.

If you really want me to be creative, I could bump it up to two, but although the other one was a small software company, it was in the pre-WWW era, and although I don't think they went bankrupt, they were certainly not bringing in enough money to cover costs, and so made me redundant (2 days before they would have been legally obliged to pay me redundancy money -- this was probably not a coincidence)
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Journal Journal: Zooming/panning images for video 2

Journal by Tet
Does anyone know of a good solution for zooming/panning static images for turning into a video? The so called Ken Burns effect? It must work on Linux, and should ideally be open source. The pan in openshot doesn't seem to work, and the zoom is too jerky to be useful. I can write my own fairly easily if I have to, but I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if I can avoid it.

Comment Tricky (Score 1) 14

by Tet (#33189410) Attached to: What do you get when you cross minesweeper with a puzzle?
I made the mistake of going for the best looking picture (the sunrise -- from APOD, at a guess). The problem with that is, there are too many tiles that just read as black, so it just becomes a case of trial an error at the end. I got 51% on that. Switching to the Montreal Metro picture gave me 80%.

Comment Unions (Score 1) 12

by Tet (#33058508) Attached to: I came within 1 vote of forming the first programmers union
I have to say, I've never seen anything good come from a union. Nothing. Not once. Indeed, I've seen plenty of instances of the union actively working against the interests of their members. I have the option to join a union here, but I wouldn't touch it with a 10' barge pole.

Comment No (Score 1, Interesting) 646

by Tet (#32963938) Attached to: Does Anyone Really Prefer Glossy Screens?
I personally detest glossy screens. They're much harder to read, particularly for those of us with a preference for light text on a dark background. But it seems increasingly all screens are going that way, be it monitors, laptops or televisions. The world sucks sometimes :-(

Comment GNU gettext (Score 1) 21

by Tet (#32879070) Attached to: i18n fail
ISTR that GNU gettext does the right thing here, allowing placeholders to change order, depending on the language, etc. True, it's not really a templating system per se, but it could be fairly easily integrated into one.

Comment Moron (Score 1) 6

by Tet (#32879012) Attached to: Bill for 3 days of iPhone use - $8,000
Why would anyone go abroad and use their phone without first checking how much it would cost? Whenever I go abroad, I check how much calls, text, MMS and data are each going to cost, and I modify my usage accordingly.

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